Show I MUD TORRENTS FORGE FORCE TO r FLEE FLEE FOR LIVES I I SEATTLE Jan 26 UP P Roaring down off ott Sumas Suma mountain torrents o of mud and water continued t to devastate the village of ot Kilgard B. B BC C. C today while provincial police sought to learn the fate of oC severa several families living on the caving moun moun- tain tam Unverified reports placed the death toll In the Pacific northwest floods a at 25 Constables yesterday rescued th the Inhabitants of oC the settlement after after af aC- af- af ter tel one life had been lost The 4 4 year old daughter of at Mr and Mrs J. J Gee was swept out of oC her fathers father's arms and carried away awny In the first firs series erles of ot slides The refugees were sheltered at Abbotsford today Disaster Spectacular The Th Kilgard disaster was the mos most of oC a l week of oC disasters throughout the Pacific northwest Looking back on on a quick alon slon of ot virtually everything in the weather catalogue catalogue blizzards blizzards to balmy temperatures and from sunshine sunshine sunshine sun sun- shine to abnormal rain the rain the prospects pros pros- peets of oC Immediate relief were as gray and forbidding as the skies to to- to day Although man many sections reported streams subsiding man many others re reported reported reported re- re ported their rivers still on the rampage rampage rampage ram ram- page and the forecast was for continued continued continued con con- mild snow melting temperatures temperatures tempera tempera- tures and occasional rain Mississippi Floods Continue Destruction MARKS Miss Jan 2 26 WP Rag R-Rag- RagIng Rag Rag- Ing flood waters ploughed a now new path of oC destruction so southward to toda today today to- to da day leaving lea 27 dead in three states and huge property damage Relief workers estimated that the damage in northwest Mississippi where the flood is centered stood today at more than and that persons were suffering Buttering In the overflow of oC the tho Coldwater river There were 21 deaths attributed to the flood lood in Mississippi five In Tennessee and one in Arkansas The waters water receding In Tennessee and Arkansas broke through private ate vate levees and protection dykes and roared on down toward the rich Tallahatchie river basin In this state m menacing residents in inthe inthe the tho low section It was vas believed ed possible the same flood conditions would prevail there although some somo observers thought the water would subside The United States State engineers at Memphis rushed 10 huge flat bottom yawls to a temporary base at Clarksdale b by truck to be used In rescue work A crew of oC expert mechanics mechanics mechanics me me- went alon along as well as a cargo of oC boots blankets and torches |